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What may look like an example of Photoshop trickery was actually created by throwing some high powered glow sticks into the waterfalls of California. Using long exposure that would range from 30 seconds to 7 minutes, San Francisco-based photographers Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard transformed the waterfalls into nocturnal underwater rainbows.

“This project came from months of refining a simple idea that finally turned into a concept worthy of using for an entire series,” says Kristoffer. “We were both fascinated by artificial light such as glow sticks, lasers, flares, and being big on landscape photography we tied them together in hopes of creating something that we had never seen before,” added the artist.

Even though neon lights is something completely unnatural and unrelated to the settings of the photoshoots, the final results in their ‘Neon Luminance‘ series are very harmonious.

The ‘From the Lenz’ artist duo also worked on lighting the nature around the waterfalls, and used various head lamps, road flares and even taking advantage of the moonlight: “Although this series was meant to focus mostly on glow sticks in waterfalls, we are exploring the idea of creating artificially lit landscapes in general as well, such as mountains, lakes, tree lines, grass fields and caves,” Mr Abildgaard added.

Every time you see a crowd of Catalans gathered in one place, a strike or a riot is the safest guess, however sometimes it might mean a different and truly spectacular thing. What turned out to be a typical way to celebrate any bigger occasion, doesn’t get any more impressive than in the Concurs de Castells (“competition of castles” in Catalan), where hundreds of people compete in who will form a bigger one.

The competition is held in Tarragona every two years and attracts over 20 000 viewers. Last year 32 teams participated, each one consisting from 100 to 500 members. The towers reach from 6 to 10 levels in hight, and are built from men, women and children alike. The usual way is to keep the male team members (and the heavier ones at that) at the bottom, while women and children go up to form the top levels. In order to win the competition, the complexity of the tower is judged as well as its hight.

With the“Strength, balance, courage and common sense” slogan serving as the moto of the tradition, human towers have been recognized as the UNESCO cultural heritage in 2010, and have been considered as one of the most important Catalan traditions for over 200 years now. Below are some stunning shots by David Oliete, capturing the magnitude of the event!

Located in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, this gorgeous tree-lined street is said to be the most beautiful street in the world. Planted 70 years ago by German employees in a former brewery site, one hundred tipuana trees stretch approximately 500 meters. In 2005, some of the trees were almost cut down to make a room for a shopping mall, however, local residents forced the mayor José Fogaça to sign a decree making the street of Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho “historical, cultural and environmental heritage of the city.”

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Tokyo, Japan: An employee at a foreign exchange trading company looks at monitors

Gaza City, Gaza Strip: a woman takes photos of dummies representing Palestinian prisoners in the former Saraya prison, now a memorial centre

Caracas, Venezuela: a Che Guevara lookalike rides his motorcycle at a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolás Maduro

Aleppo, Syria: a boy holds a satellite dish as he travels on the back of a truck

Andy Bartee’s Instagram image of the explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas has been published around the world. The photograph shows that you don’t have to have expensive camera equipment to get a dramatic news photograph, you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

‘From the Lenz’

‘From the Lenz’

‘From the Lenz’

Artist of the Week, No1 Matt Malloy

Artist of the Week, No1 Matt Malloy

Artist of the Week, No1 Matt Malloy

Artist of the Week, No1 Matt Malloy

Artist of the Week, No1 Matt Malloy

Michele Palazzi has been awarded the CIWEM environmental photographer of the year award 2013 for his image entitled ‘Gone with the Dust #02’. Palazzi, who is from Rome, Italy, was awarded £5,000 by CIWEM’s president, Paul Hillman, at a private awards ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society on 9 April 2013. His striking image shows a young boy and his sister during a sand storm in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Untitled, 1695-1968, from Los Alamos

Quiver Trees by Night 2, 2012. ‘The cool glow of our milky way contrasts with the warm light pollution from the nearby town of Keetmanshoop, Namibia, providing a colourful backdrop to a grove of Quiver Trees. This panorama was captured at the Quiver Tree Forest Restcamp, and covers a 230-degree view, composed of 12 exposures’

The narrow depth of field and the ‘against the light’ flare make ‘A muddy Forest pony’ a lovely image, all it needs to improve it is a clear point of focus on the eyes. The odd composition of ‘Friends in the flood’ works rather well; ‘Alone in a flooded field’ and ‘Trudging through the flood’ are both grandiose and cinematic, the perspective of these wide angle lenses coupled with the reflections in the water combine perfectly. Another quirky composition is ‘are you looking at me?’ but ideally it would include the horses front hooves! The ghostly ‘Sugarcube?’ becomes almost surreal. This is a very accomplished, and rather beautiful, portfolio

Searching for the Seventies: The Documerica Photography Project, is based on an archive of 22,000 photos taken by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The photo above, taken in 1974, was captioned at the time: ‘Religious fervor is mirrored on the face of a Black Muslim woman, one of some 10,000 listening to Elijah Muhammad deliver his annual Savior’s Day message in Chicago.’